PLUS (MT)

WordGirl"Have Snob, Will Travel/Tobey's Playground Calamity"
HAVE SNOB, WILL TRAVEL - Unable to choose the most valuable items to steal, The Butcher kidnaps Reginald the jeweler and uses him for his knowledge of fine artifacts. Amidst a fence painting contest, Becky must put her paint brush down so that WordGirl can rescue Reginald and stop the Butcher's stealing spree. Vocabulary Words: Formal, Fret. D

3:00 pm

Science Trek"Weather"
Host Joan Cartan-Hansen discusses weather and climate with meteorologists Vin Crosby and Robyn Heffernan. She also takes students inside the National Weather Service office to see how meteorologists collect the data they need to predict the weather.G

3:30 pm

Chefs A' Field"Sustainable Hawaii"
Not Just Beaches and Volcanoes, Hawaii Grows Secret Ingredients to Delight the Palate. Chef Alan Wong: Alan Wong's Restaurants - Honolulu and Tokyo On the Big Island of Hawaii, top chef Alan Wong visits Richard Ha, whose Hamakua Springs Country Farms grows beautiful, award-winning produce in the shadow of Mauna Kea. Then it's on to the links-to fish in golf course ponds! In the kitchen, Chef Wong explains how waves of immigration have influenced his unique take on Hawaiian cuisine. D

4:00 pm

Super Skyscrapers"Building The Future"
Commonly known as "the cheese grater," the Leadenhall Building is the pinnacle of London's avant-garde architecture. The tapered tower with a steel exoskeleton is the tallest skyscraper in the City of London, and the teams behind the project had to radically rethink every aspect of the traditional building model. Part 2 of 4G

NOVA"Great Cathedral Mystery"
The engineering behind the dome that crowns Florence's cathedral of Santa Maria del Fione, a Renaissance masterpiece and the world's largest masonry dome, is still debated among historians and engineers. Now a team of U.S. bricklayers helps build an experimental "mini-Duomo" using period tools and techniques to try to unravel how architect Filippo Brunelleschi managed it.G

7:00 pm

Design Squad"Just for Kicks"
The teams must each design a device to automatically feed a stream of balls to professional soccer player Michael Parkhurst.G

7:30 pm

Everyday Edisons"I Can Finally Grasp It!"
We've all heard that "a friend in need, is a friend indeed," but for inventor, Mark Stark, it was no question that his friend needed a helping hand. Born without his left hand, Mark's friend, Dave Vogt never knew what his friend was working on in his shop and garage for months and months until one day, he presented Dave with an artificial hand that would change his life. A heart-warming story of compassion and friendship, this episode brings to light a need, an idea, a prototype and, of course, a challenge to our Everyday Edisons team. D

8:00 pm

Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers"Coming to America"
Who were the first Americans, and when did they arrive? Did they get here by land or sea? Did a single group populate the continent, or did many? Experts used to agree that the first Americans walked across the Bering land bridge from Asia about 12,000 years ago, then found their way south, eventually colonizing all of North and South America. But exciting recent finds at sites on both continents have triggered new theories. Alan Alda tries to find out who's saying what, and why. D

9:00 pm

Super Skyscrapers"Building The Future"
Commonly known as "the cheese grater," the Leadenhall Building is the pinnacle of London's avant-garde architecture. The tapered tower with a steel exoskeleton is the tallest skyscraper in the City of London, and the teams behind the project had to radically rethink every aspect of the traditional building model. Part 2 of 4G

10:00 pm

NOVA"Great Cathedral Mystery"
The engineering behind the dome that crowns Florence's cathedral of Santa Maria del Fione, a Renaissance masterpiece and the world's largest masonry dome, is still debated among historians and engineers. Now a team of U.S. bricklayers helps build an experimental "mini-Duomo" using period tools and techniques to try to unravel how architect Filippo Brunelleschi managed it.G

11:00 pm

Design Squad"Just for Kicks"
The teams must each design a device to automatically feed a stream of balls to professional soccer player Michael Parkhurst.G

11:30 pm

Everyday Edisons"I Can Finally Grasp It!"
We've all heard that "a friend in need, is a friend indeed," but for inventor, Mark Stark, it was no question that his friend needed a helping hand. Born without his left hand, Mark's friend, Dave Vogt never knew what his friend was working on in his shop and garage for months and months until one day, he presented Dave with an artificial hand that would change his life. A heart-warming story of compassion and friendship, this episode brings to light a need, an idea, a prototype and, of course, a challenge to our Everyday Edisons team. D